Moran Katz, Clarinetist

Clarinetist Moran Katz has toured extensively through the U.S., Europe
and East Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Recent
engagements included performances in France, Belgium, Switzerland,
Germany, Holland, England, Israel, North Carolina, California,
Washington D.C. and New York. This season she performs in California,
Texas, Chicago, and collaborates with the Ariel, Contemporary and
Benaim Quartets in venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center and at the
Invalides in Paris.

Among other orchestras, she has been a featured soloist with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, the
Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Sinfonietta and the Tel Aviv
Soloists Ensemble. She performed in the United Nations Hall in Geneva,
Biskek Philharmonia Hall in Kyrgyzstan, Palais des Beaux-Arts in
Charleroi, Hotel National des Invalides in Paris, Palais des Fetes in
Strasburg, Dunkerque Theatre and in New York's Weill Recital Hall in
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller
Theater and Bargemusic.

Very active in the contemporary music scene, Ms. Katz was twice the
soloist with the New Juilliard Ensemble, as part of the FOCUS! 2005
and 2006 Festivals. She often collaborates with the Jazz Ensemble of
Pianist Uri Caine and with the internationally acclaimed new music
ensemble "Continuum" and performs at the Lincoln Center Festival and
at the MoMA Summergarden Series. She is also a founding member of
"Clarinet Gang", a Jazz and Klezmer band, which frequently tours in Europe.

Ms. Katz is the winner of numerous prizes and awards, such as the 2006
Francois Schapira First Prize for Woodwinds at the prestigious Aviv
Competitions, the 2004 Artists International's Young Artist Chamber
Music Award (as a member of the "Nesher Trio"); First Prize at the
2004 Lions Clarinet Competition; Second Prizes in the Lions European
Musical Prize 2004 for Clarinet in Rome; the 2003 Juilliard Nielsen
Concerto Competition; the 2001 Brown-Roger-Ziegl Woodwind Competition
in Jerusalem; and the 2002 "Thelma Yellin" prize for excellence in
Music and Clarinet Performance. She is also the recipient of the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation grants with distinction since 1999.

Ms. Katz received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2006 as a student of
Charles Neidich at The Juilliard School, New York, where she was
admitted with presidential distinction and a full scholarship. She is
now continuing her studies at Juilliard as a Master's Candidate, while
serving as a teacher assistant in the music theory department. As a
4-year fellow of the Gluck Communitry Service program, she has given
over 40 outreach performances in New York City. She participates in
festivals in Israel, Hungary, Belgium, California, Vermont and Florida
and has recorded many times for radio and television. Among her
previous teachers: Mr. Richard Lesser and Mrs. Eva Wasserman.